Introduction

Recently, I has to use an ActiveX object (ThumbCtl class) and I had some problems with using an ActiveX control on a Windows Form.

Solution

You must consider that ActiveX controls can't be put directly on a Windows Form. For that, you have to do these steps:

Generate wrapper assemblies for your ActiveX object. You can do this using the aximp.exe tool, e.g., aximp.exe c:\windows\system32\WEBVW.dll. Now you have generated two files: AxWEBVWLib.dll and WEBVWLib.dll.

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